The Irving Sessions // Vol. Five: Midnight Train
06.01.09 / Nashville, TN

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And, we’re back!  Sorry for the three month delay since my last post.  In many ways it feels like it’s been a year, maybe two, and yet it also feels like I was recording just a few weeks ago.  A lot has changed since the end of February.  Most notably, I resigned from Target at the beginning of April to take an amazing opportunity with Love Everybody back in Music City, USA.  It’s great to be back in Nashville, back in my condo, and back in music.  I can’t really explain the difference in my overall well-being when I’m surrounded by creativity, entrepreneurship, and most importantly, music/film/media.  There are certain aspects to Minneapolis that I will definitely miss — living with fantastic roommates, a great group of friends, constant contact with motivated & career-driven individuals, the warehouse district, Barbette,  Metro Transit, traversing via foot, and Lake of the Isles, to name a few — and Target was a great company to work for.  Nashville, however, feels like home.  I couldn’t be happier about this chapter.  It feels right and I feel a new sense of purpose and motivation.

After only four volumes (I love how the word “volume” makes it sound like I have amassed a much larger collection than I could actually bring to the table at this point), the name The Irving Sessions is technically no longer appropriate for this project.  However, despite the fact that my studio has relocated some five states south to Fatherland St., I’m going to keep the name and keep the project moving forward.  With that said I’m happy to announce a first…

Vol. Five features a song written and recorded all on the same day — today (well, technically, last night)!  In fact, this song is so new that the lyrics have not even made their way to paper.  Perhaps it’s best to think of “Midnight Train” as a new recipe with which the chef is experimenting in front of a small number of guests or an automobile prototype much more imaginative than the production version that will be distributed in mass quantities at a later date.  What you have below is about the seventh or eighth take of this song, ever.  I recorded each version after the initial melody idea came together, and this one felt the most natural to share.  It felt the most like early morning hours.  The most like it’s lyrical intent:

I’m waitin’ on a midnight train // I’m waitin’ on the world to change // I’m waitin’ on a midnight train // to carry us home.

Version 1 / 06.01.09/ Nashville, TN / Fatherland St.